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Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: Almost 50% of the submissions to the Constituency Commission came from the Swords area. As a result, Swords has been realigned as a single entity. Deputy Connaughton spoke about towns in Galway East being split. If all those towns had made submissions to the Constituency Commission, would they have been split? I do not think they would. We talk about Oireachtas reform. Our Friday...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: It is a totally cosmetic exercise. I hope to have a Bill of my own debated at a Friday sitting but I would like it to be voted on following a meaningful discussion on it. If we are to have Friday sessions, they should be meaningful. When I canvassed during the general election campaign, people I met on their doorsteps said they wanted me to be elected so that I could represent them in...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: Deputy Connaughton stole my thunder with regard to quotas. I am a sheep farmer and I know all about quotas which were held back in the late 1990s and early 2000s when a quota determined how much money a farmer got. The other night, I watched a satirical television programme from the 1980s called "Yes, Minister". The Minister, Jim Hacker, was trying to promote a woman within the civil...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: Was that a gerrymander?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details on the tendering process due to commence when the current contract with An Post for the payment of welfare customers expires on the 31 December 2013; when a decision will issue in relation to the awarding of this contract; if she will take into consideration the impact on jobs, convenience and professional standards that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the Department. It is a shame we do not see the witnesses on a more regular basis. This must be the first visit in almost two years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: Currently we are transposing around nine EU directives into Irish law. What is the breakdown of those directives? I have not seen anyone carrying out regulatory impact assessments. It is difficult to find out who is in charge of a section in the Department and who analyses the impact of the various EU directives that are being transposed into Irish law. Who is responsible for this? On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I do not mean to interrupt but I am talking about proposed directives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: Sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: It is 84% of the costs associated with compliance with EU directives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: Do RIAs take into consideration the costs for companies of transposing a directive into Irish law? The RIA does not seem to take into consideration-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I refer to a Forfás report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: No. It is compliance costs associated with EU directives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I know, but the point I am trying to make is that when doing a regulatory impact assessment, are we taking those things into consideration-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: -----to make an argument with the EU Commission that when a directive is transposed into Irish law, it will have an adverse affect on businesses here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: There was one more question in regard to linkage, although maybe that will come up later.

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation (30 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: There is an NHA bog, Hodgestown bog, in my area. It is important that the Department's officials engage with the bog owners there, who are willing to put a management plan in place. We come up against a stone wall at the end of 2013 and they would like to have something in place before that. They want to engage actively with the Department's officials and come to some agreement. They have...

An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: I too offer sympathy on the death of Adrian Donohoe who was a brave and courageous garda. Like many other gardaí he stood for law and order. Tomorrow will be a sad day for me as the Garda station in Kill will close tomorrow morning. I have been asked to attend there with the sergeant to watch the building close. The building may close but the gardaí are not going away. The two...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Jan 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: To ask the Minister for Health the returns policy regarding unused incontinence pads which are still sealed in their original packaging, bearing in mind the financial constraints on the Health Service Executive and the possible needless wasting of unused goods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4953/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (5 Feb 2013)

Anthony Lawlor: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the health centre in Johnstownbridge, County Kildare; his plans to develop a new health centre in the area which would incorporate both the Enfield County Meath and Johnstownbridge, County Kildare areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5199/13]